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The #Trust30 Day Challenge [Post 27]

July 5, 2011 in Trust#30 Challenge with 669 Comments

“The world belongs to the energetic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s easy to blame our failure to meet our goals or to live our dream lives on a lack of energy, and we don’t always stop to think about the quality of energy in our lives. Yet we can choose to create and manage our own energy flow.

Think of an instance when you’ve been so involved in an activity that you’ve lost track of time, and then identity the passions and energies you were feeding. Who was there with you? What were you doing? What will you do to make time for moments like that one more often?

(Author: Julia E)

This is a great prompt because I feel this way all the time! Our energy levels often dictate how much we can accomplish in any day, week, month, or season. Sometimes our resources allow us to do less and we must work with what’s given to us, even if that means cutting out things like social time (d’oh!) to do so.

A DJ friend from college used to lament that he didn’t have enough money to put together the dream production studio he always wanted. He also believed that once he got a job and was able to fund this studio, he then wouldn’t have the time or energy to use it.

So why do it? Why should he fight for the resources to build his dream studio if he won’t be able to use it? Was this reasoning merely a cover up for his fear, or a legitimate circumstance to create a workaround for? Maybe a little bit of both.

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SBTRKT – SBTRKT

July 1, 2011 in music news and reviews,new music,syndicated with 2,124 Comments

This post is syndicated from Indie Shuffle.

Sounds like: James Blake, Jaime xx, Burial

What’s so good?

There’s something to be said about the anonymous producer, the artist who chooses to hide behind a mask and forgo all marks of physical identity. Greats like MF Doom, Deadmau5, and the gents from Daft Punk all perform in disguise. Why do they present themselves this way? In a culture where the creator can play the part of celebrity, is it a noble effort to force the hand of the art itself? Is it an attempt to retain personal privacy while in the public eye? Or is the artist simply… shy?  What’s going on behind the mask?

Whatever the reason, SBTRKT is a producer who clearly puts his musicianship first by eschewing all norms and expectations for a mostly — in the traditional sense of the genre — electronic record.  That’s not to say it’s not an innovative album. In fact, the opposite is true. SBTRKT incorporates the wobbly, arrhythmic sensibilities of fellow electronic and R&B line-toers like James Blake, Com Truise, and Jaime xx while infusing his own point of view.

We hear hints of dubstep paired with a similarly clean production sound, developed with the finessed ear of maybe a daylight-driven Burial or simplified Clubroot. The silent upbeats we hear are filled with meaning, just as the vowels omitted from his name.

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The #Trust30 Day Challenge [Post 25]

June 29, 2011 in Trust#30 Challenge with 572 Comments

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think about the type of person you’d NEVER want to be 5 years from now. Write out your own personal recipe to prevent this from happening and commit to following it. “Thought is the seed of action.”

(Author: Harley Schreiber)

I’ve come dangerously close to becoming someone I’d rather not be. There’s a slippery slope when it comes to determining our identity, particularly as we get older and tend to try on different shades of personality in the quest to discover our true selves.

In this process, there seems to be a youthful inclination driven by the desire to please everyone. The modus operandi is to be a completely agreeable person, for the fear of limiting our connections and opportunities by getting in our own way. In actuality, we can be completely authentic, free as can be –  so long as we dip the criticism in a bit of sugar.

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